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11-letter words containing l, o, s, c

  • glaciations — Plural form of glaciation.
  • glass block — a translucent, hollow or solid block of glass for glazing openings or constructing partitions, usually square on the face, with the outer surfaces treated in any of various ways.
  • glossectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of all or part of the tongue.
  • glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
  • glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
  • glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
  • glycogenous — of or relating to the formation of sugar in the liver.
  • glycolipids — Plural form of glycolipid.
  • glycosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a glycoside.
  • glycosylate — (organic chemistry) To react with a sugar to form a glycoside (especially a glycoprotein).
  • goal crease — crease1 (def 4).
  • goal scorer — somebody who scores goals
  • goalscorers — Plural form of goalscorer.
  • goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
  • goldschmidt — Richard Benedikt. 1878–1958, US geneticist, born in Germany. He advanced the theory that heredity is determined by the chemical configuration of the chromosome molecule rather than by the qualities of the individual genes
  • golf course — the ground or course over which golf is played. A standard full-scale golf course has 125 to 175 acres (51 to 71 hectares), usually with 18 holes varying from 100 to 650 yards (91 to 594 meters) in length from tee to cup.
  • grass cloth — a cloth made from plant fibres, such as jute or hemp
  • groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
  • half-closed — having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
  • half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
  • halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
  • hammerlocks — Plural form of hammerlock.
  • hand scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
  • handscrolls — Plural form of handscroll.
  • harmolodics — the technique of each musician in a group simultaneously improvising around the melodic and rhythmic patterns in a tune, rather than one musician improvising on its underlying harmonic pattern while the others play an accompaniment
  • hectoliters — Plural form of hectoliter.
  • hectopascal — An SI unit of pressure and stress equal to 100 pascals.
  • helicopters — Plural form of helicopter.
  • helicospore — a coiled cylindrical fungal spore.
  • helioscopic — of or relating to observations of the sun
  • heliostatic — an instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, for reflecting the sun's rays in a fixed direction.
  • high school — a school attended after elementary school or junior high school and usually consisting of grades 9 or 10 through 12.
  • highschools — Plural form of highschool.
  • hills cloud — a hypothetical dense, disc-shaped area within the Oort cloud
  • holluschick — a young male fur seal.
  • holoblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing total cleavage, resulting in equal blastomeres.
  • holocaustic — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
  • home-school — to teach (one's children) at home instead of sending them to school.
  • homeschools — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of homeschool.
  • homoblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing no difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
  • homoplastic — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
  • honeylocust — any of a genus (Gleditsia) of trees of the caesalpinia family, esp. a North American species (G. triacanthos) usually having strong, thorny branches, featherlike foliage, and large, twisted pods containing beanlike seeds and a sweet pulp
  • honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
  • horn clause — (logic)   A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
  • horse block — a step or block of stone, wood, etc., for getting on or off a horse or in or out of a vehicle.
  • hot cockles — a children's game in which a blindfolded player is hit by one of the other players and then tries to guess which one did the hitting.
  • house place — (in medieval architecture) a room common to all the inhabitants of a house, as a hall.
  • house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
  • hpcode-plus — A descendant of HPcode with data types, developed to be an ANDF language.
  • hydrocorals — any colonial marine animal of the hydrozoan order Stylasterina having a calcareous skeleton resembling that of the true corals.
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